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The Jay & Linda Sedwick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $725k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $175,000 |
| DALLAS SEMINARY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE | $100,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES | $45,000 |
| LIFE CHOICES INC | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE CHURCH | $38,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SENECA HILLS BIBLE CAMP | $22,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF BUTLER COUNTY | $20,000 |
| QUEST MINISTRIES | $13,000 |
| ANSWERS IN GENESIS | $12,000 |
| BUTLER MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $506k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $775k · revenue +41%
- PFPENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE5× · 2019–2025 · $500k · revenue +77%
- MHMAGNALIA HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION JAMES P VAN EERDEN2× · 2022–2023 · $245k · revenue +56% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- AFACT FOR AMERICA EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +9%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
Prepare individuals to become pastors, evangelists, missionary workers, christian education teachers, and to assist the local church in carrying out its mission.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Through prayerful dependence on god, dayton christian schools (lmi) provides a biblically integrated, academically rigorous educational experience. instilling in students a love for christ and god's word, a love for learning, and a love…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Life Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nallathambi Education & Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Dallas Seminary Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MAGNALIA HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION JAMES P VAN EERDEN ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Clinic of Butler County Inc ↗
- Who funds SENECA HILLS BIBLE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds QUEST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DAN SCHALL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BUTLER MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds NALLATHAMBI EDUCATION & HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds PENN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Sedwick Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Butler County Bar Association Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Jay & Linda Sedwick Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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